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Monday, 3 October 2005

Town Planning

A perfect example of town planners not really thinking things through

Last year the local council spent a great deal of cash re-generating
Cromer town centre. The main part of this meant narrowing the roads in
the town centre. Quite ironic considering that in the 60's they
demolished some of the old fishermen's cottages to make the road wider.

Anyway, I'm in the town centre this afternoon, and a funeral
precession comes down the road, heading towards the church, which is
more or less in the centre of the town. They're driving along at the
usual respectful pace, with about ten cars behind the hearse.

Then, I knew there could be trouble. A couple of seconds later, I
heard an ambulance siren. Seconds after that, said ambulance came
charging down the road. Because the traffic had been caught behind the
funeral precession, several cars had to mount both pavements so that the
ambulance could get through.

This isn't the first time I've seen this happen, and it probably
won't be the last. But it just goes to show that certain council
officials may have the town's best interests at heart, but they just
didn't think things through. How long before someone walking on the path
is hit by a car when the emergency services come racing through the
town centre?